spas4you@btinternet.com.
Best regards
John Lewis
http://www.hot-tubs-jacuzzi-spain.com
Hot Tub in Fuengirola
I was sitting in my Hot Tub the other day relaxing and
wondering how this whole Hydro massage , Hydrotherapy and
Hot Tub thing must have started all those years ago.
I know that the original Hot Tubs as we know them were made
of wood and were very popular in Japan two to three hundred
years ago.
Then of course there were the Greeks, Phoenicians and last
but not least the Romans, all of whom thought it was a
cracking idea to have warm bathing coupled with massage.
Moving quickly into more modern day times I have absolutely
no doubt that back in time just over half a century ago
(1954) when the Jacuzzi brothers Invented a portable
whirlpool pump (simply as I understand it because one of
their relatives had arthritis) that they would not have had
an inkling that this would go on to form such a large and
developing industry.
Hot Tubs and Jacuzzi style spas are now being made in most
western countries to the highest standards and the
development of the product continues at a pace. Apart from
the original idea of being able to combine warm water and
air to create the Spa effect there is no part of a Hot
Tub that has not had improvements and amendments made to
technology and indeed the construction and manufacturing
processes used in making a Hot Tub have gone through
considerable changes.
Whole industries have been spawned producing the components
and raw materials that Hot Tub manufactures require. The
Acrylic Sheets that form the Shell the electronic controls
the pumps and motors. Each and every Hot tub manufacturer
has tried to be at the cutting edge when introducing new
ideas. Some of the many other items that spring to mind
where inventors and design engineers together with
entrepreneurs have made considerable changes would be:-
Massage jets Controllers Heaters & Insulation Lighting
Systems Ideas of re-using the heat generated by the pump
and motors within the Spa its self. Equipment and accessory
items - even the product's description would have undergone
several permutations.
The original Jacuzzi pump, when coupled with jets using an
air-injection system, a mixture not unlike a kind of bubbly
water-and-air was created. With the natural efluxion of
time, a variety of manufacturers experimented with methods
to propel the air/water stream into the spa with ever
increasing digress of pressure and control. Originally
Spas used a simple idea that involved something like a
vacuum cleaner motor but operating as a blower in some ways
not unlike to blowing air into the hot tub in exactly the
same way that we as children would have used a straw to
blow bubbles in to a glass of pop. Again as time
passed the designers soon began thinking of things like the
venturi principle, in which water is pumped through a
funnel-like device to create a vacuum that pulls in air. As
the water flow and pressure increases, the jet
automatically draws in more air, which results in more
water flow and movement not unlike the idea of an exhaust
driven turbo charger in a car.
Many modern Hot Tubs have the ability to bleed air into so
that one is able to inject air into the Jets thereby
increasing the pressure and movement of water to create a
beneficial hydro massage effect.
The race goes on as every Hot Tub manufacturer continues to
add more and more features to their products.
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The author supplies premium quality Hot Tubs on the Costa
Del Sol In Spain and his web site is at
http://www.spas4you.com